Racial Justice Resources for Families

Compiled by Debbie Gline Allen, Christian Education and Youth Ministry Consultant

How To Talk to Kids About Racism by Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/18/living/feat-teaching-diversity-schools/index.html
Resources for Talking to Kids About Racism from BounceBackParenting.com
http://bouncebackparenting.com/resources-for-talking-to-kids-about-race-and-racism
Teaching Young Children about Race:A Guide for Parents and Teachers from TeachingForChange.org
http://www.teachingforchange.org/teaching-about-race
How to Stop Racism Before It Starts from Children’s Ministry Magazine
http://childrensministry.com/articles/stop-racism-before-it-starts
10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books For Racism and Sexism from the California State Department of Education
https://alimichael.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/10ways-to-analyze-Children-books-for-racism.pdf
14 Children’s Picture Books Exploring Race and Racism from the Institute for Humane Education
https://humaneeducation.org/blog/2014/14-childrens-picture-books-exploring-race-racism

Raising Race Conscious Children
http://www.raceconscious.org
Where to Start: 12 Small Steps for Families Who Want to Be a Positive Force for Change on Racism
http://www.westories.org/blog/2016/7/8/where-to-start-12-small-steps-for-white-families-who-want-to-be-a-positive-force-for-change-on-racism
Twelve Children’s Books to Help Talk to Kids About Prejudice
http://coolmompicks.com/blog/2015/07/07/12-childrens-book-help-talk-to-kids-about-prejudice/
60+ Resources for Talking to Kids About Racism
http://creativewithkids.com/resources-for-talking-to-kids-about-race-and-racism/
70 Race Resources for White People
https://scrapingraisins.blogspot.com/2016/07/70-race-resources-for-white-people.html?m=1
Violence, Racism, and Hostile Rhetoric
https://rowsofsharon.com/2016/07/10/violence-racism-and-hostile-rhetoric/
Children and Racism
A blog on the influences of racism on young children

Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Skin Again by Bell Hooks
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Got Our Skin Color by Katie Kissinger
Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack
Desmond and the Very Mean Word by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
Let’s Talk about Race by Julius Lester
Daddy, There’s a Noise Outside by Kenneth Braswell
Peace is an Offering by Annette Le Box and Stephanie Graegin
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
Shades of People by Shelley Rotner
Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? By Sandy Lynne Holman
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
Who Was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Who Is Malala Yousafzai? by Dinah Brown and Andrew Thomson
Who Is Barack Obama? by Roberta Edwards
The March Trilogy (a graphic novel series) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman